The partner of the Open champion freely admits that she knows very little
about golf. Alison Campbell’s only way of knowing if Darren Clarke, her
fiancé, has hit a good shot is from his expressive body language. She tried
playing the game once with her mum and sister, but “I quickly gave it up as
a bad job”.

Campbell says that she had only a passing interest in 2006, when Clarke was
making the headlines by starring for Europe in the Ryder Cup only weeks
after the death of his wife. But as Clarke lifted the Claret Jug on Sunday,